Metallic clip for attaching metal lath



- Feb. 24. 1925. 1,527,613; H'. B. WRIGHT ET AL METALLIC CLIP FOR ATTACHING METAL LA'IH Filed Oct. 6, 1921 gwuentozd P at ent ed F 24, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,527,618 PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE B. WRIGHT AND HAROLD FROST HEWETSON, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, AS- SIGNOBS TO THE GENERAL FIREPROOFING COMPANY, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, A

- CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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Application filed tlctober e, 1921. Serial No. 505,863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HORACE B. WRIGHT and HAROLD FROST HEwETsoN, citizens of the United States residing at Youngstown, in the county of ltlahoningand State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Metallic Clips for Attaching Kletal' Lath, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to devices of the clip type for attaching or securing expanded metal lath to metal lumber.

To that end theinvention contemplates a simple and practical form of cli which may be readil produced economica y, and

incommercia uantities, for attaching exanded metal athing or the like to the anges of metal lumber securely and ex peditiously.

A furtherand more specific object of the invention is to rovide aclip having a lath supporting bo of maximum resiliency, and also adapted to engage with the support in such a manner as to elfect a secure anchora e for the metal lathing.

Wit the above and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination-and arrangement of arts, hereinafter more fully described, i ustrated and claimed.

' A preferred and practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of a structural member and lathing united by a clip constituting the present invention.

Figure 2 is a' vertical sectional view taken a on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1. I

Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of the imfiroved clip.

Sim ar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying the invention into effect, it is proposed to provide an attaching clip made of a single iece of spring wire of suitable gauge. 0 that end a suitable length of wire may be bent to form a rela-- tively resilient supporting body adapted to w th the lat and aving hooked arm drawings t setting of the body has the effect of providportions at the ends thereof to engage with [6 the studding or other structural member.

Accordingly, as will beobserved from the e present clip essentially consists of the body 1 having the attaching arms 2 at the oppoosite ends thereof, and the said Q body being deformed or bent inwardly to prov de the medial head portion 3, and also cut laterally to provide the'relatively divergently related body sections 4, which join with the angularly disposed attaching arms is 2. The ends of these arms are formed with the hooks 5 for engaging with the metal lumber, and "are both ofl'set laterally on the same side of the arms to permit ofv the same engaging over the flange F of the chan- 1Q nel bar as shown in Fi ure=2 for example. The formation of the c ip above described provides a relatively resilient body which is deformed laterally and inwardly and lies in a plane obli ue to the arms 2, the books 5 of which are out or formed at the same side of the arms as the body ortion 1. By

offsetting the body 1 latera y and at the same time upwardly at its medial portion to provide a pressure head for engaging with so the lath L, or instance, the desired resiliency is obtained without spreading the arms 2 as might be the case if the body 1 were only.bowed or bent inwardly when the clfiip was applied. That is to say, the lateral o ing a resilient portion which flexes more or less in the zone of the angle or elbow 4:" formed between the vertical attaching arms and the resilient sections 4 of the body. The resilience is largely due to torsional stresses instead of bending stresses.

While metal cl1ps have been heretofore used for attaching expanded metal lathing to metal lumber, suchclips have generally had the hooks for engaging with the metal lumber bent inwardly in a plane parallel to the body of the clip. However, the present invention departs from that practice by forming the hooks 5 at right angles to the general disposition of the body 1, and also proposes to bendthe body laterally so as to have the same lie in a horizontal plane also at an angle to. the arms, thereby to provide the hooks and body extending substantially horizontal to the same side of the vertical arms of the clip. This arrangement permite of the clip occupying a position paraldisposed attachin lel with the flange of the beam instead of transversely thereto, as in the case of clips which .have the hooksbent inwardly and substantially in the plane of the body of the clip.

In installing the clip for use, it is only necessary to insert the arms 2 having the hooks 5 thereon through the meshes of the lath and place one of the hooks over the flan e of the beam with the compression hea 3 of the body engaging with the lath. Then, the other attaching arm 2 ma be forced into position, whereby the hook 5 thereof will also engage with the flange of the beam, either by a hammer blow or any other suitable means for reliably and .ex-

peditiously driving the clip to its final po- ,sition;

that the features and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and it will of course be understood that changes in the form, proportion and other minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or scope of the appended claims.

We claim 1. A wire clip of the class described including a clamping body having offset attaching arms at the ends thereof, supporting hooks formed on the arms and extending at right angles to the body, said body being bent laterally in the same direction as the hooks,.,and also toward the same to provide a medial resilient rib-engaging head. v

' 2; A clip of the class described formed by a single piece of wire bent to provide a relatively horizontal body and angularly arms, laterally offset supporting hooks ormed on the ends of the arms, andthe said body of the clip beingbent at its medial portion laterally and toward the hooks to provide a yielding compression head located at one side of a plane intersecting both of the arms.

3. A clip of the class described formed by a single piece of wire bent to provide a relatively horizontal body and angularly disposed attaching arms, laterally offset supporting hooks formed on the ends of the arms, and the said body of the clip being bent at its medial portion laterally and toward the hooks to provide a resilient lath engaging head at said medial portion and adapted to flex at a point substantially at the junction of the arms with the body.

4. A clip of the class described formed from a single piece of wire bent to provide a body adapted to be positioned parallel to Without further description it is thought.

the edge of the structural member with which it engages and having arms at the opposite ends thereof provided with, offset hooks, and said body being bent laterally and toward the hooks to form convergent resilient sections joining in a resilient head portion located substantially at right angles to the plane of the attaching arms.

5. A clip of the class described including spaced arms provided with ofl'set supporting hooks and connected by a body also bent to the same side of the arms as the hooks, and the said body being bent toward the hooks to provide a relatively constricted clamping jaw adapted to yield in the direction of the arms.

In testimony whereof we hereunto afiix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

HORACE B. WRIGHT. HAROLD FROST HEWETSOX. lVitnesses W. C. CORYELL, JOHN W. Run). 

